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Ideas & Images Series at Flagler College

What You Need To Know

Robert Riggs, associate professor and chair in religion and politics at the University of Bridgeport, will share a talk titled Nationalism, Sectarianism and Identity Politics in the Middle East: Reconsidering the Legacy of the Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916. He will discuss the early foundations of Middle East political tensions by focusing on the competing claims of Jewish, Arab and Turkish nationalists. The event is at Flagler College's Flagler Room in Ponce de Leon Hall at 7 p.m. Admission is free.